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Not at all. We know induction is invalid. Hume presents an empirical answer, not a logical one. If you have a better, present it for consideration. We...

You brought up solipsism, claimed it for yourself. I've shown the problem with solipsism, over the last few pages. Your asking me a question shows tha...

What sort of proof could make sense? What could be clearer to you than that you are reading this now? The doubt you pretend to is unjustified.

You seem to miss the bit where Hume is talking about the psychology of knowing, not the logic - having shown that the logic isn't of any use in justif...

You expect a deductive logic all the way down. So when it isn't there, you invent it. You've badly misunderstood Hume.

You asked: I replied: If you wanted to use your own answer, why bother asking the question...? You are choosing to carve a very human process so that ...

Yep.

Your theory. You tell me. But if you are stuck, try 's "exception" - the unexpected.

...is what folk claim when they don't have a reply. Odd of you to quote back to me from an article that supports the view I just set out. If there was...

You got nuthin'. Fine. Peirce developed on Hume's scepticism, as did Popper, Feyerabend, and any one else with an empirical leaning. They didn't rejec...

Yep. If we said instead that any action can be described in selfish terms, few would protest; it's be a rare action that had no benefit to the actor. ...

I'm here. Offer a clear critique, and I will reply. Just to be clear, here's my opine on the abductive response to the OP, as stated: I stand by it. A...

More about me. What fun! In order to address your argument, it would have to be clearly expressed. You have done so in other threads, and I've address...

Perhaps. In any case, you don't say why my "it's good scientific practice to change the laws so as to make the exception disappear" is arse backwards....

But hang on. Isn't it a methodological presumption in science that when we come across something that doesn't fit our expectations - an exception - th...

Assume I do. How can Newton be proven wrong about light if you know only what is in your head? Newton and light are in your head?

It's your epistemology. So you say that we can be certain that Newton was proven wrong... but that I'm just trying to work out how you keep both those...

Proven? Are you certain? But you said...

Well, no. It's the consequence of your approach. Your every act is selfish - so you claim. So what we want doesn't count, unless it matches what you w...

You tell us. You want to be here. But you tell us that we don't count for anything. You shit were you eat. Supposing that all you need is a definition...

I have a vendetta against poor thinking.

No, since I don't exist. You love it. You keep coming back for more. You don't have to be here, after all - go play Counterstrike or something - oh, w...

Remember this? Worse for solipsists. But for you, that's all there is... You seem quite adept at it, even when not in the mood. I'm quite serious. You...

I don't exist, so I can't deviate from the OP. Nor can I "swim in solipsism", whatever that might be. This is the very same problem you aimed at yours...

It's not my version - I don't exist. It's the reality of your realisation that you are the only mind, closing in on you. So you are certain that you a...

Yeah, it is. All those threads about not caring for anyone else - that's all part of your realisation that you are alone. Or that you are mistaken. Yo...

Sure is. But you have no one to argue with. It's all in your head. So why use the "general form?" If you are taking letters coming through a screen, t...

See that "we"? There is no "we" in solipsism. There is just you. I'm not here. Isn't it odd, that even now, as you read this, you seem to be respondin...

You are a solipsist. There isn't any one here for you to talk to. You are on your own. There is no one here to care about your opinion, or even to rea...

I suppose, from the point of view of a solipsist, the very idea of an unselfish act is incoherent.

I meant that as a statement of fact. For him, we don't exist, so you already have left him to it. I guess I'm just Copernicus laughing at himself.

You're a bit of a dill, arn't you.

Isn't that simply because when we find such exceptions, we change the laws?

Cool.

Doesn't it leave a bitter taste? I avoid it. I was more pointing out that it's citric, not oxalic, acid.

Sodium bicarbonate, citric acid and saccharine, apparently.

Sure. The point was that she uses a model theoretical approach to set out Hume's scepticism formaly. Leave it. I'll think about a thread on that artic...

See the paper Hume’s Law and other Barriers to Entailment Page seven is pretty clear.

An analytic delight! :party:

Something you'd never do... I'll leave you to it, insults and all. :nerd: Have fun.

A trolly is that from which one serves tea. The Tram Problem, as first articulated by Philippa Foot, concerned double effect; it's not an attempt to j...

Cheers, Apo. More about me. Thanks! :wink: The grand edifice is tinsel. Friston’s Bayesian mechanics, like any Bayesian scheme, formalises rather than...

Cheers. Semiotics seems to me to miss the point by treating all causal talk, all meaning, as merely codes or signs floating in abstraction. It's what ...

It's not easy stuff, but to my eye it's by far the most interesting thing going on in philosophy at present.

Sure. Our words are about the world. The true, ones, at least... But I wouldn't put that in terms of necessity. Too loaded. Bayesian calculus deals wi...

That's a good line of thinking, well put. We must take care here - if an argument is valid, then asserting the premises taken together is just asserti...

Came across this... Yep. So Bayesian Calculus is about belief, but Russell's work is to do with models, and so truth. Looks pretty cool. It is a forma...

But think of a photon. What bothers me about your argument is the "hedgehog" - we cannot infer hedgehog conclusions from non-hedgehog premises. If tha...

A valid point - I do tend to use "warrant" and "Justification:" synonymously, which is a problem acknowledged in the literature. We've Plantiga's use ...

There's two approaches to this, and I'd like to look in to how they relate. The one is the already mentioned Bayesian calculus, which gives us a metho...